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In article <1993Jan12.160747.19249@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>I would like to find out to find the extent to which the Foundation's
>pursuit of its beliefs in this matter conflicts with its tax-exempt
>status, insofar as it surely contradicts its alleged charitable ends.

   Mikhail, I get the strong impression that, at this point, you are simply
looking for anything to be contrary about just because you don't like the
FSF.  You made your original point fairly clearly, I think.  You are
greatly diminishing the force of your argument by bringing up lots of
tangential (and sometimes wrong) facts or opinions, and muddying up the
issues considerably.

   If the FSF were hurting its tax-exempt status by refusing to port GNU
software to the Mac, or refusing to merge contributed ports into our
working sources, the IRS would have known about it years ago.  It's
obviously not a problem.  We have an auditor examine our records every year
to make sure we are still complying with the tax exemption rules.

   You can't even claim we are forcing anyone else not to port GNU software
to the mac.  We haven't, and such ports already exist.  We merely ask
people not to for what we think are good reasons.